Musashi: Samurai Legend

Square's young swordsman returns, but he needs to spend a little more time in action school before becoming a renowned hero.
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Musashi uses "manga shading" techniques. Adorable characters and lush environments come to life in Japanese comic-book style. Your journey begins when Princess Mycella summons Musashi across space and time to save her people from danger. As a stranger in a new world, Musashi finds intrigue and adventure as he hones his battle skills to defeat a sinister nemesis. Using new battle systems, Musashi can focus his energy to learn his opponents' techniques, allowing him to give enemies a taste of their own medicine. And this time Musashi can not only pick up allies and enemies but also wield them in combat to devastating effect.

Despite being most well known for its many RPGs, Square Enix has never shied away from branching out into more action oriented genres. From King's Knight on NES to the PS1's Einhander to the admittedly underwhelming The Bouncer for PS2, the company isn't afraid to take the occasional non-turn based chance. That tradition continues with Musashi: Samurai Legend, the sequel to 1998's Brave Fencer Musashi for PS1. Read More »

Musashi Samurai Legend is way different than I originally thought it was. After seeing the trailer, I was thinking that it's an extremely stylish action game that's different in gameplay style from its forerunner. After playing it and chatting with the dev team, I think it's an extremely stylish action-platform game that will be a worthy successor to its forerunner. Read More »

Square unveiled Musashi Samurai Legend during its E3 press conference. While fans of Brave Fencer Musashi for PlayStation might not be getting the sequel they've been hoping for, this new game has an exciting look and style that should appeal to more people than its predecessor did. Read More »